Improvement in compositions for preserving eggs



UNITED STATES PATENT O EIcE.

JOSEPH K. BOONE, OF BOONEVILLE, MISSOURI.

IMPROVEMENT lN COMPOSITIONS FOR PRESERVING EGGS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 167,637, dated September 14, 1875; application filed January 18, 1875.

when the eggs are dipped .in it and allowed to' remain for eight or ten seconds.

The alum in my compound will close the pores of the shell, and cause the shrinkage of the same, while the lime acts as a whitening. material, and when combined with the alum,

surface, free from pore in equal proportions, a cement is formed, which, when applied to the egg-shell, will produce thereon a smooth, polished, or glazed s and perfectly airtight.

Having thus described my invention I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent The compound of alum and lime, in equal proportions, dissolved in hot water, for the preservation of eggs, substantially as specitied.

7 his JOSEPH K, BOONE.

mark.

Witnesses: J. A. HOWARD,

W. W. TRENT. 

